Manfred Cassirer
Vita
(SBC) Manfred Cassirer (12. Juli 1920 Berlin-Wilmersdorf - 18./19. Dezember 2003 London), Dr. phil. Ägyptologe, Schriftsteller, Verfasser mehrerer Bücher über Parapsychologie. (S. 449)
(W) Manfred Cassirer (12 July 1920 – 18 December 2003) was a British Egyptologist and parapsychologist.
Cassirer was born in Berlin. Being half-Jewish he moved to Paris to stay with a relative when he was a child. He was psychologically disturbed during his youth. He later moved to Oxford where he studied theology. He obtained a degree in Egyptology and studied at St Peter's College, Oxford.
He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research which he joined in 1975.
Q: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Cassirer
(W) German Egyptologist. Son of Dr Erich Cassirer (q.v.). Left Berlin 1937; had a degree in Egyptology; studied theology and Oriental subjects at St Peter's College Oxford (matriculated 1942; MA 1949; B.Litt. 1951). Inherited his father's art gallery in London. Held a student room ticket to the Dept of Western Asiatic Antiquities 8-15 February 1952. In later life he became an author of several works on paranormal subjects. Died alone in London at the age of 83.
Q: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG62040
(bio) Manfred Cassirer arrived in Paris af ter his mother, who was non-Jewish, had divorced his father under the racial laws and she married a Nazi. Manfred. who was thus half-Jewish, was sent to Paris to stay with an elderly female relative. Werner Falk went over to Paris from Oxford to fetch him. Manfred spoke no English and he was, not surprisingly, suffering from considerable psychological disturbance. Manfred stayed with Barbara and Werner Falk until he learned enough English to go to a Quaker tutor who specialised in emotionally disturbed children.
Manfred's father, Erich Cassirer, who had been first a philosopher, and then an art dealer (with a leading expertise in ancient Chinese art) also came to Oxford where he stayed for much of the war. Later he started a small gallery in London and after his death in 1963, Manfred inherited it. Barbara and Werner bought objects from Erich so he would have money to live on.
Manfred eventually married an older women, Pauline Chenster. (...)
Manfred Cassirer died alone in his London flat on December 18th or 19th 2003, aged 83.
Q: http://meta-studies.net/pmg/index.php?n=Main.TheScatteredGenerations
Notes
(geni.com) Sohn von Dr. Erich Cassirer und Erika Cassirer
Ehemann von Pauline Chenster